Morton Feldman - 2024 ACF Winter

Question

Answer the following about extremely long minimalist pieces of music, for 10 points each.

[10h] This minimalist composer’s second string quartet lasts six hours. He also wrote the opera Neither with Samuel Beckett, and a choral piece to be performed in its title location, Rothko Chapel.

ANSWER: Morton Feldman

[10m] Clocking in at 8.5 hours is Max Richter’s album Sleep, which he structured to reflect this piece. Glenn Gould is known for his 1955 and 1981 recordings of this piece, the latter of which he performed at a much slower tempo.

ANSWER: Goldberg Variations [or Goldberg-Variationen; accept BWV 988] (by J. S. Bach)

[10e] Putting the length of Feldman’s String Quartet II and Richter’s Sleep to shame, a performance of this composer’s organ piece As Slow as Possible is set to complete in 2640. This composer also wrote the decidedly shorter 4’33” (“four minutes and thirty-three seconds”).

ANSWER: John Cage [or John Milton Cage, Jr.]

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Summary


2024 ACF Winter at UC Berkeley	2024-11-16	Y	3	16.67	100%	67%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Clemson	2024-11-16	Y	8	13.75	100%	38%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Lehigh	2024-11-16	Y	8	17.50	88%	50%	38%
2024 ACF Winter at Northwestern	2024-11-16	Y	9	24.44	100%	89%	56%
2024 ACF Winter at Ohio State	2024-11-16	Y	7	14.29	86%	57%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Online	2024-11-16	Y	8	13.75	100%	38%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at UBC	2024-11-16	Y	3	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Central Florida	2024-11-16	Y	4	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Oxford	2024-11-16	Y	11	17.27	91%	64%	18%
2024 ACF Winter at Brandeis	2024-11-16	Y	10	11.00	70%	40%	0%

Data


Penn State A	Bard A	0	10	10	20
Johns Hopkins A	Rutgers A	10	10	10	30
Lehigh A	Johns Hopkins B	0	0	10	10
Kenyon A	CWRU B	0	10	10	20
Michigan D (DII)	CWRU D (DII)	0	10	10	20
Michigan A	Kenyon B (DII)	0	10	10	20
Michigan State A	Ohio State B (DII)	0	0	10	10
Oxford B	Bristol B	10	0	10	20
Manchester	Cambridge B	0	0	10	10
Southampton B	Durham A	0	10	10	20
Cambridge C	Imperial A	0	10	10	20
Berkeley A	Stanford A	0	10	10	20
Stanford L	Berkeley C	0	10	10	20
stanford M	Berkeley B	0	0	10	10
Tennesse A	Alabama A	0	0	10	10
Auburn A	Emory B	0	0	10	10
Georgia Tech F	Auburn C	0	10	10	20
Georgia Tech D	Clemson A	0	10	10	20
Emory A	Georgia Tech E	0	0	10	10
Georgia A	Auburn B	0	10	10	20
Georgia Tech C	Georgia Tech A	0	0	10	10
Tusculum A	Tennesse B	0	0	10	10
SFU	UBC A	0	10	10	20
UW B	UBC B	0	10	10	20
UW A	Alberta	0	10	10	20
UCF B	Florida Tech B	0	0	10	10
UF D	UF C	0	0	10	10
UF E	Florida State University A	0	0	10	10
UF B	UF F	0	0	10	10
Columbia A	Penn B	10	10	10	30
Rowan A	Penn State B	0	0	10	10
Rowan A	Penn State B	0	0	10	10
Rowan A	Penn State B	0	0	10	10
Rowan A	Penn State B	0	0	10	10
Rowan A	Penn State B	0	0	10	10
Rowan A	Penn State B	0	0	10	10
Rowan A	Penn State B	0	0	10	10
Rowan A	Penn State B	0	0	10	10
Princeton A	Johns Hopkins B	10	10	0	20
Rutgers C	Princeton A	0	0	10	10
Purdue A	Purdue B	0	10	10	20
UChicago C	Purdue C	10	10	10	30
UIUC A	Purdue D	10	10	10	30
UIUC A	Purdue D	10	10	10	30
UIUC A	Purdue D	10	10	10	30
UIUC A	Purdue D	10	10	10	30
UIUC A	Purdue D	10	10	10	30
UIUC A	Purdue D	10	10	10	30
UIUC A	Purdue D	10	10	10	30
UIUC A	Purdue D	10	10	10	30
UChicago A	UIUC D	0	10	10	20
WashU B	UChicago D	10	10	10	30
WashU B	UChicago D	10	10	10	30
WashU B	UChicago D	10	10	10	30
WashU B	UChicago D	10	10	10	30
WashU B	UChicago D	10	10	10	30
WashU B	UChicago D	10	10	10	30
WashU B	UChicago D	10	10	10	30
WashU B	UChicago D	10	10	10	30
Indiana A	WashU C	0	10	10	20
UIUC B	WashU D	0	0	10	10
CWRU C (UG)	Michigan State C (UG)	0	0	0	0
Ohio State A (UG)	Ohio State C (DII)	0	0	10	10
Pitt A	Michigan State B (UG)	0	10	10	20
Missouri	Arkansas	0	0	10	10
Oregon State	Central Oklahoma	0	0	10	10
Mississippi State	Colorado College	0	0	10	10
Ole Miss	Iowa	0	0	10	10
NYU B	Vassar B	0	10	10	20
Texas A	Texas B	0	10	10	20
WUSTL A	Texas C	0	0	10	10
Vassar A	Texas D	0	10	10	20
Warwick B	LSE A	0	0	10	10
Birmingham	LSE B	0	10	10	20
Cambridge D	Oxford A	0	10	10	20
Cambridge A	Southampton A	0	10	10	20
Southampton A	Durham A	10	10	0	20
Vanderbilt	Bristol A	0	10	10	20
Warwick A	Durham B	0	0	10	10
Yale B	Amherst A	0	0	10	10
Boston University A	Williams A	0	10	0	10
Bowdoin A	A Brandeis Supreme	0	0	10	10
Bowdoin B	BU B	0	0	10	10
Tufts A	Brandeises Brew	0	0	10	10
Brown A	Tufts B	0	10	10	20
Clark A	Diamond Brandeis	0	10	0	10
Harvard A	MIT	0	10	10	20
Carabrandeis	Northeastern A	0	0	10	10
Yale C	Yale A	0	0	0	0